King Lear Flashcards
1.1 in the Nunn version when Gloucester talks about Edmund’s mother crudely, Edmund…
grimaces and shuts his eyes
1.1 (Lear) ‘Unburdened crawl…
towards death.’
1.1 (Goneril to about Lear) ‘Dearer than eyesight, space and liberty…
beyond what can be valued, rich or rare.’
1.1 (Regan to Lear) ‘Prize me…
at her worth.’
1.1 (Cordelia wearing white dress aside) ‘Poor…
Cordelia.’
1.1 (Lear to Cordelia) ‘Nothing will come of nothing…
. Speak again.’
1.1 (Cordelia to Lear) ‘I shall never marry like my sisters…
. To love my father all.’
1.1 (Lear to Cordelia) ‘here i disclaim all my paternal care…
propinquity and property of blood.’
1.1 (Lear to Kent) ‘Come not between a dragon…
and his wrath.’
1.1 (Kent to Lear) ‘When majesty falls…
to folly.’
1.1 (Kent to Lear) ‘See better, Lear, and let me still remain…
The true blank of thine eye.’
1.1 (Kent to Lear) ‘Do kill thy physician…
and thy fee bestow upon the foul disease.’
1.1 (Cordelia after being banished by Lear) ‘That hath deprived me of your grace and favour but even for
which…
I am richer, a still soliciting eye.’
1.1 (France to Cordelia) ‘Art most rich…
being poor.’
1.1 (Cordelia) ‘Washed…
eyes.’
1.2 (Edmund) ‘Thou, Nature art…
my goddess.’
1.2 (Edmund) ‘Plague of…
custom.’
1.2 (Edmund) ‘Why brand they us with base?…
With baseness, bastardy? Base, base?’
1.2 (Edmund) ‘Legitiamte Edgar…
I must have your land.’
1.2 (Edmund) ‘Edmund the base shall top the legitimate…
I grow, I prosper: now gods, stand up for bastards!’
1.1 (Gloucester about Edgar) ‘Abhorred villain!…
unnatural, detested, brutish villain.’
1.2 (Edmund’s soliloquy) ‘Villans on necessity,…
fools be heavenly compulsion.’
1.2 (Edmund’s soliloquy) ‘My Father compounded with my mother under the dragon’s tail…
and my nativity was under Ursa Major.’
- biblical allusion/deixsis
- dragon - aligned with Lear
1.3 (Goneril to Oswald) ‘Old fools are babes again and…
must be used.’
-modal verb ‘must’
1.2 (Edgar’s soliloquy) ‘I will preserve myself, and am bethought to take…
the basest and most poorest shape.’
- superlatives
- modal verb ‘will’
4.6 (Lear) ‘Through tattered clothes great vices do appear;…
Robes and furred gowns hide all.’
- animalistic - ‘furred’
2.2 (Edgar soliloquy) ‘Edgar…
I nothing am.’
2.2 (Edgar soliloquy) ‘Poor…
Tom.’
2.2 (Edgar soliloquy) what does he do
puts mud on his face, falls to his knees and leaves his glasses behind
2.2 (Lear to sisters) Give terminology of ‘serpent -like’
sibilant adjective with biblical allusion of sin
1.1 (Lear to Gonreil - Lear sits cross-legged rocking back and forth child-like) ‘Daughter do not…
make me mad.’
- irony
2.2 (Lear to sisters) ‘Thou art a boil, a plague sore or embossed carbuncle…
in my corrupted blood.’
- now that Cordeila is removed from his blood he is corrupted
2.2 (Lear to sisters) ‘Man’s life is…
as cheap as beasts.’
2.2 (Lear to sisters) ‘What thou gorgeous wear’st which…
scarcely keeps thee warm.’
2.2 (Lear to sisters) ‘let not women’s weapons, water-drops,…
stain my man’s cheeks.’
- sibience
3.2 (Lear) ‘A poor infirm, weak and…
despised old man.’
- peripetia
3.2 (Lear to Fool) ‘How dost my boy?…
Art cold?’
3.3 (Fools prophetic monologue) ‘Realm of…
Albion.’
- intertextual reference to Mallory’s stories
3.3 (Edmund about Edgar) ‘Most savage and…
unnatural.’
- intertextual reference to Sidney’s Arcadia to the wicked son
- His father hugs him at the end of his following speech
3.3 (Edmund breaking the fourth wall) ‘The younger rises when the…
old doth fall.’
- blank verse
3.6 (Lear) ‘Poor…
King.’
- irony
3.6 (Lear can be seen to act out a dissection) ‘Then let them anatomize Regan…
see what breeds about her heart.’
3.7 (Regan) ‘let him smell…
his way to Dover.’
3.7 (Servant) ‘Women will…
all turn monsters.’
4.1 (Gloucester to Poor Tom) ‘The times plague when madmen…
lead the blind.’
4.2 (Albany to Goneril) ‘Tigers…
not daughters.’
4.2 (Albany to Goneril) ‘Humanity must…
perforce prey on itself.’
- modal verb, plosive
- cannibalistic
- commonplace that ‘great fish eat the small’
3.4 (Lear kneels, removing his clothes in storm) ‘Expose thyself to feel…
what wretches feel.’
3.4 (Lear) ‘Is man…
no more than this.’
4.1 (Edgar to Gloucester) ‘Poor Tom shall…
lead thee.’
4.3 (Cordelia) She shook holy water…
from her heavenly eye.’
4.3 (Kent)’Gave her dear rights to his dog-hearted daughters …
these things sting his mind so venomously.’
4.6 (Edgar to Gloucester) ‘In nothing I am changed…
but in my garments.’
4.6 (Edmund to disguised Edgar) ‘If thou’rt noble…
I do forgive thee.’
